Co-directed by Ernst Hofbauer (two of the Schoolgirl Report movies, as well as Teenage Playmates and Secrets of Sweet Sixteen) and Chih-Hung Kuei (The Boxer's Omen, Corpse Mania) and written by Yi Hsun Cheng, The Bod Squad - also known as Enter the Seven Virgins, Virgins of the Seven Seas and Karate, Küsse, blonde Katzen in Germany (Karate, Kisses, Blonde Cats) - this is the kind of movie that just couldn't get enough of wild taglines, like "They could do two things with their bodies...LOVE and KILL!" and "Virgin on the Ridiculous! Fantastic Chop Chop! Plenty Hanky Panky! Very Very Sexy!"

This is the kind of film that reminds you that as often that Shaw Brothers movies look classy, they have no problem being exploitation.

Five Western women - Donna (Sonja Jeannine, Mannaja), Anna (Diane Drube), Brenda (Gillian Bray, Death Occurred Last Night), Karen (Tamara Elliot, who showed up as a belly dancer on TV shows like The Incredible Hulk and Fantasy Island) and Celia (Deborah Ralls) - were just trying to sail to Australia when they're kidnapped and forced into white slavery. I mean, no one willingly goes into white slavery, right? Then again, as I write this, I can only imagine that there's going to be one angry reader that sends me a diatribe about how this has happened and what a moron I am.

The girls have the good fortune of meeting Ko Mei Mei (Hui-Ling Liu, Black Lizard), who has infiltrated the brothel they are sold to and who also has a heroic brother named Ko Pao (Hua Yueh, Come Drink With Me). This, of course, leads to training scenes where the girls learn how to weaponize olives and punch needles into wood, not to mention chop concrete blocks.

The great B Movie Heroes site describes this film as one that "mysteriously manages to be both misogynistic and feminist at the same time," which is a strange feat.

Pirate leader Hsao (Hsieh Wang) probably thought that this was going to be easy but he wasn't ready for the fighting fury of five women. Yes, the title promises seven, but...maybe that's why The Bod Squad is better, if not a bit anachronistic.

Constantin Film and The Shaw Brothers joined up and made this, so who are we to think that the nations of our world can't all work together? This played U. S. drive-ins - thanks to Film Ventures International - from 1976 onward, even being reissued in 1980 as Shogun Warlord (thanks, Temple of Schlock!).

This even made it on Siskel and Ebert, back when it was Sneak Previews, with Roger saying, "I have just seen my first nudey karate film. I guess you'd call that genre chop sexy."

I love that this movie exists. It's just so perfect in how it replaces the traditional Shaw Brothers heroes with German exploitation actresses and then puts them into fight scenes. How can you miss that? The best part is that the ladies decimate their captors, which is how it should be.

Pirates attack an English merchant ship and kidnap 5 young women to sell them. But before they are sold as concubines, the five are first sent to a women's camp where they are taught what will make them good lovers later on. But one thing is certain for the 5 women: they want their freedom back, and they want it with the help of local fighting techniques!

"Schulmädchenreport" goes Hong Kong, Ernst Hofbauer meets Shaw Brothers: the result is a crazy genre mix of Asian kung fu film and German sex farce. Sounds like trash, and it is, but in a positive sense. The exploitation fan's heart beats faster, entertaining nonsense from beginning to end! Naked female power non-stop and wild, senseless martial arts interludes...what more could you want? Add to that the dubbing, which was usually great in those days. In any case, varied and entertaining, if you know what you're getting, you won't regret it.

"Karate, Küsse, blonde Katzen" or "Yang chi" (and there exist several English-language titles too for this one, is a collaboration between Hong Kong and West Germany from 1984, so this one is already over 40 years old. I cannot say I am familiar with any of the Asisn people who worked on this film, no matter if behind or in front of the cameras, but the name of director Ernst Hofbauer sure rings a bell and certainly not a positive one. He worked on many German films that were a mix of comedy and soft core porn, but the quality was always very low. The girls weren't that hot and the writing of the story and comedy was abysmal for the most part. And things look similar here in this pretty unusual collaboration. The film runs for slightly under 90 minutes and is about a bunch of young European women who are brought to Asia as slaves for a master who is very influential and owns a big company. Of course, there are also Asian girls for audiences with a more exotic taste. The story is about virginity, greed, loyalty and many other aspects, but the heart and should here is of course once again the mix of nudity and comedy. The women are trained as martial arts fighters to oppose their captors and so it is also somehow a story of survival, even if it is pretty much impossible to take the film seriously from that perspective. After all they are always topless during the fighting sequences. Enough said. I personally don't believe this is among Hofbauer's worst as the Asian influence and the general weirdness of this culture clash adds quite some (un)intended humor. But it's by no means a good film either. I just cannot recommend the watch. Thumbs down.